From: Tom Link <micathom@...>
Date: 2009-01-11T00:30:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Behavior of 0 and 0.0...

> eg. in Python:
> or Perl:
> 1.0/0.0
> Illegal division by zero at - line 1.

What would the equivalent of the following code return in perl or
python then?

a = 1.0; 50.times { a /= 1_000_000_000; p 1.0 / a }

What would you expect to be the result of:

p 1.0 / 0.1 < 1.0 / a

In ruby, it's true.

Maybe it helps to think of 0.0 as 0.0 + eta with eta being too small
to be represented, maybe not. The integer 0 is just 0 and x / 0 is not
a number.